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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forwards
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
face
▪ It is the attacker who is deflected now; your body remains facing forwards and fully effective.
▪ A novel feature is the ability of the metal block to hold blades facing forwards or sideways.
▪ Keep your feet and hips still and keep facing forwards.
▪ Remember to keep the foot pointed and the knee facing forwards.
▪ At the same time lift the back leg off the floor, keeping the back leg straight and both hips facing forwards.
▪ Both were thrown out of their seats, which had been fitted facing forwards instead of backwards.
▪ Keep your hips facing forwards, slightly turn out your left foot and aim your right foot forwards.
▪ You then turn round so you're facing forwards and constantly adjust the risers to keep the wing overhead.
go
▪ It was hot in the thin corridor, and the hanging husks made going forwards practically impossible.
▪ Dramatic results are obtained when you go forwards to meet the opponent just as he attacks.
▪ Therefore he walked very stiffly and awkwardly, swinging his leg out sideways in order to force it to go forwards.
▪ Allow the Head to Go Forwards and Upwards.
▪ The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
▪ From where he was lying, he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target.
▪ Again the forwards went well; again the backs struggled.
▪ Typically McGeechan will do more work with the whole squad before the forwards go off to perfect their blacker arts.
lean
▪ Not leaning forwards as you rise. 4.
▪ Stretch arms up high, then slowly lean forwards as far as you can without straining.
▪ Remember not to lean forwards as you do the exercise.
▪ Do not lean forwards as you block since this will bring your chin close to the opponent's other fist.
▪ I'd imagined her leaning forwards and smiling, but not looking like this, somehow.
▪ Her way of leaning forwards, eyes sparkling, fingers almost touching the priest's black sleeve, made Thérèse squirm.
▪ You then sweep hard into the pad and try to spin your partner without leaning forwards or over-committing yourself.
▪ Slowly lean forwards as far as possible without straining.
leaned
▪ Léonie perched on the cold wet edge of the white bath and leaned forwards.
▪ Ed leaned forwards and took a sniff.
▪ The man leaned forwards and spread out his hands.
▪ She leaned forwards and stroked the lion.
▪ He ignored the raw, splintered mess, and leaned forwards as if to kiss where her lips had been.
▪ As she opened the door, he leaned forwards.
▪ Nathan leaned forwards, stared at scenery that, even in the dark, he knew off by heart and could recite.
move
▪ In addition, the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high.
▪ The stick must be moved forwards to make the recovery.
▪ If I'd moved forwards, we would have bumped.
▪ If the model insists on moving forwards, then rear cyclic trim is needed, etc.
▪ He can move forwards, rolling the ball forwards, and then come back almost to sit on his heels.
▪ If the spin stops when the full opposite rudder is applied, the stick must be moved forwards to allow normal flight.
▪ Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far.
▪ If speed is lost, quickly move forwards on the board.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
know sth backwards and forwards
backwards and forwards
▪ He started shaking it backwards and forwards.
▪ It didn't exactly touch my hand, but sort of glided over it, wrinkling backwards and forwards.
▪ Keith throws his right shoulder backwards and forwards, hoping the pads will somehow slide into place.
▪ Pike's head quite often pulses backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.
▪ The cross is meant to be imagined as oscillating backwards and forwards.
▪ The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside.
▪ Then we noticed that the Pike head was sort of pulsing backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.
▪ They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner's surgery.
launch yourself forwards/up/from etc
▪ With a sari Psepha unfolded his great wings and launched himself from his tree.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if she got pins and needles and had to move, it woke with a jump and crept forwards again.
▪ Gently pull the body forwards 15 times.
▪ Gently stretch forwards for 25 counts, holding each stretch for 1 second.
▪ Not leaning forwards as you rise. 4.
▪ Obviously this applies to backs as well as forwards.
▪ The more his head jolted backwards and forwards, the further down his scalp it crept.
▪ The stick must be moved forwards to make the recovery.
▪ The supremacy of the Richmond forwards was further emphasised by the concerted drive which swept lock-forward Lewis over.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forwards

Forward \For"ward\, Forwards \For"wards\, adv. [AS. forweard, foreweard; for, fore + -weardes; akin to G. vorw["a]rts. The s is properly a genitive ending. See For, Fore, and -ward, -wards.] Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

Forwards

Forwards \For"wards\, adv. Same as Forward.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forwards

c.1400, from forward (adv.) + adverbial genitive -s. British English until mid-20c. preserved the distinction between forward and forwards, the latter expressing "a definite direction viewed in contrast with other directions." In American English, however, forward prevails in all senses since Webster (1832) damned forwards as "a corruption."

Wiktionary
forwards

Etymology 1 adv. 1 toward the front. 2 In a progressive direction. Etymology 2

vb. (en-third-person singular of: forward) Etymology 3

n. (plural of forward English)

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WordNet
forwards

  1. adv. at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) [syn: forward, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard] [ant: back]

  2. in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead, onward, onwards, forward, forrader]

Usage examples of "forwards".

Amid rain and mist the British columns were pushing rapidly forwards, but still the burghers held together, and still their artillery was uncaptured.

The process of attrition went very steadily forwards, and each of the British columns returned its constant tale of prisoners.

The same afternoon I descried the venerable warrior approaching the house, with a slow, stately gait, ear-rings in ears, and spear in hand, with this highly ornamental pair of shoes suspended from his neck by a strip of bark, and swinging backwards and forwards on his capacious chest.

For a while the liburnian seemed to list, motionless, and then a gust of wind propelled them forwards.

They did no more here than call upon a few serious persons in the city, and then went forwards to Neuwied, hoping there to hear of them.

Then he pulls one towards him and opens it, and begins to study it--turning over the leaves backwards and forwards.

He sets to work at once, sells a number of tickets, and forwards the proceeds to his principals in New York.

The pinnae move forwards and at the same time sink downwards, whilst the main petiole rises considerably.

Emmanuel also, when he had thus set forwards to go to recover the town of Mansoul, took with him, at the commandment of his Father, fifty-four battering-rams, and twelve slings to whirl stones withal.

The Duke paced backwards and forwards with brows drawn down, muttering all this to himself rather than to me, and shaking his head like one in the sorest perplexity.

Beaulieu reached forwards to hold a hose over the top of the submunitions chamber.

Miller lowered her to the boat, and then he and Tammany helped Carver forwards, lifted him in after her.

They brought the Fram backwards and forwards, twice each way, through those ice-filled southern waters that many experts even held to be so dangerous that the Fram would not be able to come through them, and on both trips this was done with the speed and punctuality of a ship on her regular route.

On one of these for a while Ferdinand Lopez walked backwards and forwards as though waiting for the coming of some especial train.

They travel thousands of miles, have their annual migrations backwards and forwards, and never miss the best and shortest route.